Adele Ferguson
The Commonwealth Bank might have escaped a royal commission into its scandal-ridden financial planning division but its chairman David Turner will be called to address “concerns” in a...

Adele Ferguson

Adele Ferguson
When comedian Shaun Micallef’s latest episode of Mad as Hell did a spoof on the scandal-ridden financial planning industry it was a signal that the shenanigans have become ingrained in the...

Adele Ferguson

Adele Ferguson
The liquidator of collapsed Timbercorp has written to thousands of victims offering to cut a deal on the $490 million still owed, including offering a hardship assistance program, if they come...

Adele Ferguson
A national register of financial planners armed with a consumer-led rating system could become a ''game changer'' for an industry that lacks transparency and has raised alarm bells for years.

Adele Ferguson
Teagan Couper was stunned when she heard that one in three customers receive shoddy advice on life insurance policies according to a study by the corporate regulator into the $44 billion life...

Adele Ferguson

Adele Ferguson
ANZ deputy chief executive Graham Hodges has written to politicians offering to deal with any victims of collapsed Timbercorp who lost money after being “poorly advised” by one of the...

Adele Ferguson
As the clock ticks for the Coalition to push through financial advice reforms before the end of the year, politicians should take the politics out of the vote and think about the policy implications...

Gareth Hutchens and Adele Ferguson
The number of Australian companies receiving warnings from auditors about their financial health has jumped to a higher level than that seen during the global financial crisis, new research shows.

Adele Ferguson

Adele Ferguson
As the minister for finance Mathias Cormann gets set to ram through his amendments to financial advice reforms, the issue of low educational requirements and institutionalised cheating on exams is...

Finance

Adele Ferguson and Ben Butler
It is the cheat sheet at the centre of the Macquarie Private Wealth scandal that the millionaires' factory and the corporate regulator, the Australian Securities and Investments Commission, refuses...

Adele Ferguson
Some of the more unsavoury practices of the country's multibillion dollar life insurance industry will be put under the blowtorch next week, including the insidious practice of advisers "churning"...